Yes On Prop 4 | Prevent Wildfires, Provide Clean Drinking Water

California faces devastating wildfires, vulnerable drinking water supplies, extreme summer heat, and other major threats from a changing climate. Prop 4 tackles our most urgent climate needs today, before the damage becomes too costly and unmanageable. Vote Yes on Prop 4 to protect California and what makes our state so special.

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Why It’s Critical to Vote Yes:

Prevent devastating wildfires

Recent wildfires burned over 2 million acres. Prop 4 invests in proven strategies to detect, prevent, and reduce wildfires everywhere in CA.

Provide clean, safe drinking water

We can’t take our water for granted. Prop 4 restores water supply and safeguards our water from pollution.

Protect the air we breathe

Smoke and extreme heat are creating new health threats. Prop 4 reduces air pollution and improves health for communities most in need.

Protect our iconic lands

Safeguarding our natural areas is more urgent than ever. Prop 4 protects the sources of our clean air and water, and preserves California’s iconic forests, mountains, rivers, and coast.

Join Us to Protect California

We can prevent wildfires. We can protect our drinking water. We can reduce future costs and damage from a changing climate and more frequent natural disasters.

Join us today for a safer, more resilient California.

Frequently Asked Questions

What investments does Prop 4 make?

Prop 4 makes urgent investments in proven solutions to protect our communities, health, and economy. It will help prevent devastating wildfires and smoke, provide safe, clean drinking water and boost our water supplies, protect California’s iconic forests, mountains, rivers, and coastline, and ensure all Californians have access to healthy, resilient communities.

How will Prop 4 prevent devastating wildfire and smoke?

Prop 4 protects communities by creating natural breaks and removing burnable brush around populated areas. It increases forest health to reduce wildfire intensity. Prop 4 improves early detection and disaster response with new early warning systems. And it enhances safety by upgrading available firefighting equipment, emergency communications, evacuation routes, and shelter availability.

How will Prop 4 provide safe, clean, reliable drinking water and boost supplies?

Prop 4 upgrades vital water infrastructure across California. It will fix our crumbling dams and levees, restore groundwater supplies, and increase local water recycling programs. And Prop 4 increases stormwater capture and provides increased water treatment to filter harmful contaminants like lead, PFASs, and perchlorate from our drinking water.

How does Prop 4 protect our iconic forests, mountains, rivers, and coasts?

Prop 4 preserves open spaces, forests, and our coastline for this and future generations. It restores coastal areas and wetlands and protects them from the effects of rising sea levels. A YES vote on Prop 4 will help restore natural areas, the sources of our clean air and water, while improving habitats and protecting wildlife. And Prop 4 protects and improves our rivers, streams, and lakes.

How does Prop 4 ensure all Californians have access to clean water, and healthy communities?

Prop 4 cleans up polluted drinking water, filtering out harmful contaminants. It reduces dangerous air pollution by preventing catastrophic wildfires. It furthers our state’s transition to clean, pollution-free energy. And Prop 4 prepares communities for extreme heat, with investments in planting shade trees, creating more green space, and building community cooling centers.

How does Prop 4 ensure strict accountability and keep costs in check?

Prop 4 shifts our state from a disaster response to a prevention approach, saving billions in future costs from wildfire damage, water shortages, and insurance and utility bills for families. It includes annual, independent audits on funding and full transparency on all spending. Proven, cost-effective prevention strategies will reduce disaster response spending, saving local governments millions annually.

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Prop 4 is endorsed by a broad coalition of public safety leaders, wildfire prevention specialists, clean water experts, small businesses, labor, the California Democratic Party, and many more.